Site Under Construction

This site is still being polished, especially on mobile and smaller screens. Some things may not look perfect just yet.

Magazine

Orbis Books

Orbis Books: Thomas Berry: A Book of Hours

By Robert Ellsberg | December 1, 2025
“We come here to begin to relieve an ancient wrong. We wish especially to restore to this Earth its ancient joy. For while much of what we have done is beyond healing, there is a resilience throughout the land that only awaits its opportunity to flourish once again with something of its ancient splendor.”   — Thomas Berry The work o...
Read More

Orbis Books: The Years of Ripening

By Robert Ellsberg | September 2, 2025
Joyce Rupp is one of my all-time favorite spiritual guides: she’s a wonderful mix of wise, calm, and challenging. And her insights on aging have been of enormous help in my own life. … Let her new book help you to do it with grace, courage, humor — and joy! — James Martin, S.J. ast year Sister Joyce Rupp published Vessels of Love:...
Read More

Orbis Books: Dorothy Day

By Robert Ellsberg | March 3, 2025
It is 50 years since I met Dorothy Day, when I took a leave from college at 19 to work with her at the Catholic Worker in New York. Within months she appointed me managing editor of her newspaper, thus pointing me in the direction of my life’s work — not just as an editor, but as her editor. Having edited five previous volumes of her writings, ...
Read More

Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty

By Robert Ellsberg | December 2, 2024
If we’re wise we find a book like this one … with every hope we ever dreamed, and every word we remember of its insights, and all the joy and possibility it ever brought to all our wishes and all the promises we promised before these times to celebrate the rest of life. — From the Afterword by Joan Chittister Mary Lou Kownacki, who died in 20...
Read More

Vessels of Love

By Robert Ellsberg | September 3, 2024
In her new work, Vessels of Love, Joyce Rupp, one of the most popular spiritual guides of our time, offers a collection of prayers and poems addressed to readers “in the later years of life.” Each of them is an invitation to greater faith, hope, and most of all love. As she writes in her introduction to Vessels of Love: Poems and Prayers for th...
Read More

Orbis Books: Soul Brothers

By Robert Ellsberg | June 3, 2024
This book on “men in the Bible” really has a message for everyone. If you are a man (or know one), I am happy to recommend the new edition of Richard Rohr’s Soul Brothers: Men in the Bible Speak to Men Today. Rohr, a Franciscan priest, is recognized around the world as one of the leading spiritual teachers of our time. (An anthology of his wr...
Read More

Orbis Books: Laudate Deum; Come, Have Breakfast

By Robert Ellsberg | March 4, 2024
“The world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.”  —Pope Francis, Laudate Deum  Pope Francis’ recent apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum, is a short but urgent follow-up to his historic encyclical of 2015, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home. In that earlier document he firmly established eco...
Read More

Orbis Books: A Generous Lap

By Robert Ellsberg | December 4, 2023
This book will speak to your desires to love more generously — and to be open to such love in return. — Mary Stommes Do you have grandchildren? Are you a grandchild? If so, Kathy Coffey’s new book A Generous Lap: A Spirituality of Grandparenting is for you or for someone you love. In her charming and inspiring reflections, Coffey reflects on ...
Read More
left-space-line Separator Icon right-space-line